Key Concepts
The Rock Cycle
Sedimentary Rocks
Classifying rocks
Bonus Questions
100
Heat, and pressure.
What changes rocks into metamorphic rocks?
100
Erosion of a rock then depostion?
What are the first 2 processes in the rock cycle?
100
Clastic, organic, and chemical.
What are the three type of sedimentary rocks?
100
Sedimentary rock
What is a type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together?
100
Slate.
What is the metamorphic, foliated type of rock made from the sedimentary rock shale?
200
Hawaii, and the south coast of Florida.
What 2 places in the U.S.A. can you find coral reefs?
200
Melting of the rock.
What turns any rock into an igneous rock?
200
From theremains of swamp plantsw buried in water.
How does coal form?
200
A type of rock that forms from an existing rock that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions.
What is a metamorphic rock?
200
Small solid pieces of material that come from rocks ro living things.
What are sediments?
300
A series of processes on earths surface and in the crust and make that slowly changerocks from one kind to another.
What is the rock cycle?
300
Depositon.
What is the only process that goes to Sedimentary Rock?
300
Erosion, depositon, compactiona, and cemention.
What processes together form sedimentary rocks?
300
Quartz, Feldspar, Hornblende, and Mica.
What is Granite?
300
Is the process by which sediments settle out settle out of the water or wind carrying it.
What is deposition?
400
According to the arrangement of the grains that make up the rocks.
What ways to geologist classify metamorphic rocks?
400
Plate movements start the rock cycl eby helping to form magma, the source of igneous rocks. Plate movement also cause faulting, folding, and other motions of the crust that help to from sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
What is the role of plate tectonics in the rock cycle?
400
Forms where the remains of plants and animals are deposited in thick layers.
How do organic rocks form?
400
A dark colored rock that has low silica.
What is Basalt?
400
Basalt.
What rock forms in oceanic areas?
500
Quartzite.
What is the metamorphic rock made from sandstone?
500
Appearance, texture, crystal structure, and mineral content change.
What changes when a rock changes into a Metamorphic Rock?
500
One of the common minerals that make up most of the earth's crust.
What is a rock-forming-mineral?
500
Warm, shallow, and tropical water.
What conditionas of light and temperature do coral animals require?
500
The look and feel of the rocks surface.
What is texture?
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